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VOL. XXVI, No. 13
BRYN MAWR and WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1940
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Literature
of Colonial
Era Outlined
Spanish, Native Influences
Meet in 17th Century
American Writings
Music Room, February 19.�The
second, of the Flexner lectures, Dr.
Arturus Torres-Rioseco devoted to
the subject, "Colonial Culture and
Literature in the 17th Century."
He described the development of
culture in Spanish-American C
onies and discussed the works
early colonial writers, which re-
flected the influence of old Spain,
but soon developed 'a distinct
American culture.
The era in which America was
conquered was a golden era for
Spain, marked by a flourishing
literature, individualism and an
ambitious spirit of adventure. "The
conqueror,"\^aid Dr. Torres-Rio-
seco, "was representative of the
jdefinite culture he brought with
him to America."
Early American conquests were
recorded by contemporary his-
torians. Among these works Ber-
nal Diaz' "True History of the Con-
quest of New Spain" has been un-
covered and made famous by Archi-
bald MacLeish. Spanish Ameri-
cans were influenced by the crea-
tive spirit of Spain and also turned
to literary and historical works
Garcilaso de la Vega, half Indian
son of a Spanish captain, was the
first American-born writer to corn-
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1943 Gulps Down Rehearsals^p
Soph. Challenges in Silence
Miss Ely to Speak
To Democrats Club
With high ambitions a Young
Democrats Club has been formed
not only for the duration of the
presidential campaign, but as a
permanent organization. Miss Ger-
trude Ely as advisor to the club
will speak in the Common Room
on Februray 27. Mabel Faesch,
'41, is the leader of the Young
Democrats and, with the aid of a
steering committee, plans to formu-
late the aims and policies of the
club. By a straw vote they will de-
cide what Democratic candidate
they will support in the coming
primary. Mabel, however, was
close-mouthed on the^subject of a
third term for Roosevelt.
The Freshman Class is calmly
and politely collecting portions of
their show together, in spite of the
usual heckling by the sophomores.
The last days of rehearsal are
passing so quietly that the veterans
of past shows are amazed and rev-
erent. P
In the halls freshmen are losing,
clothes, lipsticks, alarm clocks, and
matresses. One freshman lost all
her slacks, and in order to get them
back she had to promise to get up
at four-thirty in the morning and
serve all the sophomores coca-colas.
Rock a few freshmen were as-
funded to find bicycles standing in
the middle of their rooms. The
sophomores there have become so
excited that they are even doing
things to each other. One sopho-
more's room and clothes are posi-
tively saturated with ten-cent store
tfk sel
of Ip*-
.. tou
perfume.
The freshmen are very secretive
about their rehearsals. It is al-
most impossible to drag times and
places out of them. We sloshed
through the wet over to the Thea-
tre Workshop, and found a meagre
group strutting across the stage
with picks over their shoulders. A
quiet voice announced, "Bennington
and Princeton kick routine now.
On stage please." We surmised
that the show was filled with that
good old chorus girl technique, and
were surprised to see that there
was also a very good exhibition of
the shag. Mr. Roosevelt sings in a
soprano voice to his dear frfends,
and Mrs. Roosevelt pulls herself in
and pokes herself out in the right
places. Worried sophomores are
whispering, "How awful! It's go-
ing to be as good as ours."
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B. M. TO REPRESENT
BRAZIL IN LEAGUE
"Union Now" is Argued
By International Club
Common Room, February 15.�
At the meeting of the International
Relations Club, as preparation for
Bryn Mawi's position representing
Brazil at the Model League of Na-
tions this year, arguments for and
against Clarence Streit's For Un-
io'n Now were discussed. As a
means to prevent future war,
Union Now calls for a federation
of all existing democracies, espe-
cially those of "the North Atlantic
Having both state and federal gov-
ernments somewhat similar to the
system in the United States, the
union would not be*<an alliance of
democracies against otiier coun-
tries, but rather would.fby its" ex-
ample of prosperity, ^>rce other
countries to establish/iemocracies
fbr themselves and jfiin the com-
mon league.
Democratic Union Urged
Presenting Mr. Streit's argu-
ment, Louise Morley, '40, said that
the plan was based- on the funda-
mental failures of the League of
Nations, which were commonly
thoughf to be caused by the fact
that the League admitted ail coun-
tries to membership, regardless of
the form of their internal govern-
ment. The way out of the menace
of war, says Mr. Streit, is the
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Girl Pursued by Wolves on Way to Lib
Is Rescued in Storm by St. Bernards
By Virginia Sherwood, '41
Last Wednesday was a day which
should have been devoted to the
rapt contemplation of red paper
hearts with Princeton postmarks.
When the air should have held
a promise of pleasant things like
spring and ice cream cones, our
romance - starved, long - suffering
undergraduate was forced to put on
all the garments she 'possessed,
blow on thin, blue fingers, and try
to keep from being blown down by
a perfectly epic blizzard.
She struggled through monster
snowdrifts which made a simple
trip to the Library seem like a
glorified Retreat from Moscow.
She caught dim, swirling glimpses
of her fellow-students, frosted to
the eyebrows and aged beyond all
recognition. She battled against a
60-mile gale, only prevented from
sinking, exhausted, into the snow
by the wolves which snapped at
her heels. She got lost once be-
tween Merion and Taylor and
stayed that way until a kindly pro-
fessor sent some St. Bernards to
fetch her, and just in time, too.
Next day, heads could be seen4
blowing along the walk to the Li-
brary. Some professors took two
hours to get to their classes while
others remained, stuck and swear-
ing, in their ditches. Camera
fjends upset themselves in snow-
drifts to get the proper angle on
some particularly juicy branch.
Th^e Library took on a strangely
venerable aspect as the snow stuck
firmly to its cracks and crevasses.
And there were skis everywhere.
Literally. People skiied solemnly to
classes in the Science Building
and in their spare moments dis-
cussed Conditions with professional
ease. One pair of addicts found
themselves having to guard rthe
sacred precincts of the RKoads hill
against devastation by a philistine
squad of snow shovellers. Over
the weekend, there were sleigh
rides and snow fights and male vis-
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BENNETT EXPLAINS
PRE-INCA REMAINS
Pre-Inca Textiles Are
Found Intact in Sand
Goodhart, February 16. � The
development of pre-Inca art forms
in the regions of Peru and Boli-
via was the subject of an illus-
trated lecture given by Dr. Wen-
dell C. Bennett as a supplement to
the Flexner lecture series. Dr.
Bennett made it clear that this art,
although the earliest to be found in
these regions, is not primitive and
can not be considered as original
art. Much of it is artistically fine.
The pre-Inca art periods are di-
vided geographically into coast and
highlands, and temporally into
early, middle and latfe. There is
also marked difference between
the work of the north and the
south. The coastal area is mostly
desert and the custorrlof burial in
the hot sand has inVnany cases
preserved the material in which
the mummies were w|apped and
trinkets which had beew left beside
bodies. Adobe buildings still stand
in these regions to tesAtfy to the
lack of moisture in the at^psphere.
In the mountains, however, where
the rainfall is concentrated, one
finds buildings and sculpture of
stone. Also the materials of the
north differ from those of the
south, and the trained observer can
easily place a pre-Incan work of
art in its proper surroundings and
period.
The early north coast period is
distinguished by its great single
pyramids cut out of rough stone.
The pottery which has survived
from this era is not primitive and
has definite characteristics. Real-
istic designs were painted on the
bowls, and in some instances the
Continued on Pace Five
pnglish Lit. Courses
Backed by 54 of 84
Majority Criticize Lectures
As Failing to Integrate
* Whole Survey
hi following up the attack on the
Sophomore Literature Course in
last week's Public Opinion, the
News checked the views of other
students who had taken or are tak-
ing the course. Out of 84 asked,
54 claimed they liked the survey
and two consider it one of the best
courses given at Bryn Mawr.
Those most violent in their criti-
cism had had a- survey of English
literature at school. These stu-
dents said that they had gained
nothing new from this required
course and that they had spent a
generally dull year.
The most widespread criticism I
of the present system is that most
lectures arc used merely to fill in
specific gaps in the reading. The
majority of the students said that
a greater need exists for a general
background, and that general
trends which integrate the course
as a whole should be developed by
the professor.
The most disputed question was
whether or not the reading should
be concentrated on the great writ-
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Practise Teaching
Stressed by Smith
' Deanery, February H.�At an
evening meeting in the Deanery
Wednesday Mr. Perry Dunlap
Smith, principal of the North
Shore Country Day School* and
member of the board of the Win-
netka Teachers' College, spoke in-
formally on the teaching profes-
sion. Mr. Smith is actively inter-
ested in progressive education, and
believes that there is a need for
good teachers in this field.
Mr. Smith discussed the ques-
tions of preparation for a teaching
career and of personal fitness for
teaching in progressive schools. He
believes that although graduate
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National Secretary
To Address A. S.U.
Herbert Wittfnew national sec-
retary of the American Students
Union, will speak at an A. S. U.
meeting in the Common Room,
Tuesday, February 27. Mr. Witt
has recently returned from France
where he was on a tour when the
war broke out. He also addressed
the World Student Association
meeting in Paris last summer.
At an executive meeting of the
Byrn Mawr A. S. U. held on Feb-
ruary 20, Jack Kamaicko, national
financial secretary, and William H.
D. Hood, eastern Pennsylvania dis-
trict secretary, were present. Mr.
Kamaicko^ discussed the drive to
be inaugurated throughout the
country in an effort to put the na-
tional office of the A. S. U. on its
feet financially, and to make possi-
ble broadening of it's activities.
The drive will also aim at the es-
tablishment of a peace chest. At
the meeting Tuesday a vote will be
taken on the question of the Bryn
Mawr A. S. U. cooperation in the
drive.
Young Republicans
Study party Stand
Since "government is run by
parties," the organizers of the
Young Republican Club on the
campus desire primarily to instill
a knowledge of the party system,
and to stimulate discussion STld in-
terest in practical government. In
this way the club will strive to
"prepare people for the leadership
they must take later on." The sec-
ond year politics group is now act-
ing as a temporary steering com-
mittee to organize the group.
The club may be connected with
the National*Club of College Re-
publicans. The preliminary or-
ganizers are now in the act of for-
mulating their constitution, which
will be similar to those at other
colleges, but altered to fit fhe "spe^
cific needs of Bryn Mawr. Norma
Landwehr, '42, is chairman of the
temporary committee and the club
is getting ready to choose a faculty
advisor. Miss O'Daniel, who is a
secretary to John Hamilton and
was here last year is expected
February 29 to lecture on Why Be
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Pan-American
Leaders Aim
At Neutrality
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Committee Advocates 300
Mile Limit to Exclude
Belligerent Ships
"The 300-mile' security zone
around the American continents,
created by the Declaration of Pan-
ama, while going aeyond the ex-
isting rules of international law,
is fully justified as a means of
preventing belligerent operations
with American continental water,'
stated Mr. Charles *G. Fenwick at
a meeting tonight in Goodfiart
Hall.
Recently returned from Rio de
Janeiro where he was the repre-
sentative of the United States on
the Inter-American Neutrality
Committee, Mr. Fenwick explained
further that "the belligerents, on
their part, have extended the inter-
national law of war to meet the
changing conditions of modern
wars; and it would seem that neu-
trals on their part are justified in
asking that the belligerents con-
fine their operations to the waters
adjacent to their own territories."
The Neutrality Committee con- .
sists of seven members from dif-
ferent countries, but not acting as
national representatives after the
meeting last fall of the Foreign
Ministers of the American Re-
publics at Panama, when the se-
curity zone was originally declared.
Dr. Fenwick said that "the object
of the committee is to study and
formulate recommendations with
respect to the problems of neu-
trality arising during the dura-
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Better Homes
And Gardens
Green showeth
Grass growefh
Shoes trampeth
Feet stampeth
Green flyeth
Grass dyeth.
And you did it! Keep off
the grass!
CALENDAR
i Wednesday, February SI.
�Mr. Erich Frank on Greek
Music and Pythagorean Phil-
osophy, Music Room, 7.30.
Thursday, February 22.
�Philosophy Club, paper by
Louisa Allen, '42, Common
Room, 4.30.
Saturday, February 21.�
Freshman Show, Third Ter-
mite in Taylor, Goodhart
Hall, 8.30.
Sunday, February 25. �
Dr. Hornell Hart, Chapel,
Music Room, 7.30.
Monday, February 26. �
Varsity vs. Ursinus Basket-
ball Game, Gym, 4 p. m.
A. S. U. meeting, Herbert
Witt to speak, Common
Room, 4.30.
Second Flexner lecture, Dr/
Torres - Rioseco, The Revolu-
tionary Spirit and Romantic
JAterature, Music Room, 8.30.
Tuesday, February 27. �
Current Events, Mr. Fen-
wibk, Common Room, 7.30.
Miss Ely, Young Democrats'
Club meeting. Common Room,
8 p. m.
Wednesday, February 28.
�Mr. Erich Frank on Pla-
to's Conception of Philosophy,
Music Room, 7.30.
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